[Even when it's her, part of him feels the need to duck his head away, feeling the tinge of heat at his ears as embarrassment sits in his face. But he doesn't, forces himself still, even as they droop down just a bit to bring the color more out of vision. They've seen a lot together, but they keep finding places they've never been. Lup stepped into love years ago, love for their crew and her husband. For Taako, it's always taken longer to admit. Maybe he feels more, so he stamps it down harder. Maybe, despite being the same for so long, he still doesn't acknowledge those differences that go back so so long.]

Shut up, I don't-- I don't know how to deal with this, okay?

[Processing emotions has never been his strong suit. Least of all processing something like this. This isn't even someone he's known for as long as the Starblaster crew, this is-- someone he's known for a year. A year and a half. And this wasn't even the first time he was thinking about it. It feels like so little and so much all at once.]

Wait, what the fuck do you mean what you've known?

[Well, he's about to get dragged into the goddamn floor.]

Look, I just-- this-- uuuuuuugh.

[He buries his face closer into her, pulling at his hair.]

If I say it to him it gets... permanent. Like, he'll know. How do people deal with that, how the fuck did you deal with that?